Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-04-22
"oUR TREASURE"
ny ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

81 could weep-positively weep" ]
said, land l think tears at this iunct.
ure of our domestic life would not be
llnmaniy."
care you making sport of me?"
queried Evelyn, my vile, sternly.
"No, far be it from my thoughts to
intrude any levity upon an occasion
Of this kind" responded gravely,
"after the aeart-rending, blood-cur-
ding, hair-bleaching and pursereduc.
ing experiences which we have under.
gonesince the day we flew from the ills OF
boarding house life to those we knew
not OF; or, in other words, when we
jumped from the fryine pan into the fire
Ito use classic quotation-and be-
gan to study the momentous girl CUES
tion OF the day. with at least fourteen
bellies of the Kitchen as specimens, l
will leave it to any unprecedented per.
son to say, if it is not an occasion for
tears, sweet tears, when I hear my
wife announce that. our fifteenth &C.
question is a treasure"
''That sentence was as long as
"rhe list Of our numerous hired girls
deficiencies" l ventured, as my wife
hesltated for a comparison, 'for, as
tie NEUROLOGICAL historical long lane
that has no turn, which I began to
think we had found, my dear; lane
In which we were driven straight ahead,
over chasnls and powders, by an
army OF 1nerciless and unrelenting do
mestics, each armed with some dis
tinctive, and destructive, and purely
Individual vice.
"Vice, John!" repeated my wife, who
Is very choice in her selection of words;
II think you mean faults, dear, not
vices. That is not nice word to ap-
ply to g. woman! and you must re-
member that all those girls, dreadful
as they proved to be, were women
like myself"
"Were they?" I cried, "were they,
indeed, Evelyn" and I laughed a
wild and 1 think q knocking laugh, as
continued: II have been laboring un-
der the impression that they were
neither men nor women, neither
beast nor human, but were ghouls.'
II you announce them to be women
like yourself, Evelyn, must believe
was mistaken, either in my former
impression OF them, or my present inn
preston Of you"
"John!' 81 aculated Evelyn, II do
believe you are just little insane, a
monomaniac as it were-on this SUBJ
ject ofservant girls. What does make
you 60 on so?"
because they went on so, my dear.
began to think they were the living
representation of Tennyson's brook.
Men might live; and men might die,
but they went on forever. A mono
maniac, indeed! Had 1 not been en-
'dowed by nature with remarkable
g. very remarkable brain, Evelyn
you would now have raving maniac
Or driveling idiot for a. husband, as
e. consequence of seven months expe-
rience in housekeeping"
Thought heard my wife mutter
something about the latter: being very
near the case now, but I ignored it
and proceeded. '5.
Gust cast your minds eye back
ward, Evelyn, and on the wings Of
no, on memory horse car would be a
more fitting simile-let us 60 and re-
view the past, the sad, sad past"
ooh, what is the use of wading
through heaps of dead ashes or raklng
up old troubles?" interposed Evelyn.
'"They were bad enough when we had
to live through them. Now they are
past let them lie. This is my theory
Of life, and let us rejoice in our bright
Or present"
"But it will make our present shine
with the greater glory to recall that
dark and stormy past. mine Evelyn.
It will make our Mollie seem even a
rarer treasure to place her side by
side with those grim and CHASTITY crea-
lures who brought us such hours OF
misery. Dost remember Hannah"
~ dost," responded Evelyn, falling
into my Vein, as she always did soon
er orlater, thus prOvingtrue the poet 8
assertion that Htas the husband, so
'theFwife is.'' y, =. &1sr =,
81 dost. butshe didn't. She scorned
trna snhare hetwaan the tatfera.l COW
ers Of dime novels, While The dish wa
~. orow ,,nl1 NTH dasra;r WAITING IN
IA ,ssed ), - -, = - : : 70 y. - ~
| S11R,,t - a,,v aba lot IN, !, "a f9ustod,
shoca,,ss " ~, cn,nn,e;nad ala shanotp,,
:*"Oh, yes, before breakfast on Mon.
day"
y "And it was the mild and gentle An
ma who came next [ believe"
: eyes, the dove.eved pazelle whom
WA both felt confident would suit ms
~ sight. and whose chief fault seemed
70 BE- 4 dreamy absent.n,,indedness.
An Observation-Disclosures which caused